Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill could find themselves in some trouble soon.
Their alleged improper practices at their non-profit — the Clinton Foundation — is once again under the microscope.
The whistleblowers against the Clintons scored a big victory when a tax court judge ruled that the Internal Revenue Service must announce whether or not it investigated the Clinton Foundation.
According to The Washington Examiner, the agency claimed it hadn’t ever investigated both the former secretary of state and the former president, yet according to the judge familiar with the case, he says that the IRS’ administrative record doesn’t match up with the story.
Just the News reports that the ruling was made April 22.
U.S. Judge David Gustafson made the ruling after demanding that the IRS’ Whistleblower Office investigate the claim for gaps in the records.
“The WO [Whistleblower Office] must further investigate to determine whether CI [Criminal Investigation division] proceeded with an investigation based on petitioners’ information and collected proceeds,” judge Gustafson said. “It seems clear we should remand the case to the WO so that it can explore this gap.”
The petitioners — described by The Washington Examiner as financial analysts John Moynihan and Larry Doyle — in 2018 claimed that they uncovered clear evidence of pay-to-play schemes within the Clinton Foundation — which is also linked to their daughter Chelsea Clinton.
Not only did they claim that Clinton Foundation insiders divulged information on public records and tax filings through private interviews — but also that the foundation was tied up in international crimes as well. Emails found links to the Mozambique government which led to allegations that the Clintons were “working on behalf” of foreign governments.
Pundits have claimed that the foundation infringed on the Foreign Agents Registration Act — which says that those involved in politics openly reveal engagements with foreign diplomats.
Up until he left his post, former U.S. Attorney John Durham had been looking over the way the FBI handled investigating the foundation, but he of course has left that role and is reportedly singularly focused on an investigation into origins of the Russia investigation.
So it seems that the judge’s ruling may be the best shot at bringing the Clintons to justice.
The Horn editorial team